I think art deco is one of my favorites. It still has a clean, modern look that ages surprisingly well, even a century later.
I have a really big thing for 70s PNW homes done really, really well. The vaulted ceilings, open concept main areas with multiple levels, the sunken living rooms, the cedar used everywhere… just leave out the shag carpet and I’ll be A-OK.
Brutalism. The few brutalist buildings in my city are a welcome respite for the eyes against the blinged out crap they're building nowadays.
Good brutalist architecture can take your breath away. It’s so solid, so permanent, so delightfully uncompromising.
Art Nouveau. So much beauty, style and experimentation in only 20 years.
Brutalist
Gorgeous brutalist, not "let's cut corners and costs" Soviet brutalist, but Le Corbusier tier.
Prairie and Craftsman Bungalows. Unfortunately, I don't think that either is a particularly energy efficient design.
Renaissance exterior of building. Carvings in concrete. Stone block buildings. Gargoyles. Corner decorations on ceilings.
Art deco, full stop.
I'm a sucker for that 60's retrofuturism. The sleek, clean, and curved design of it all with such an optimistic view of the future is such a satisfying and happy vibe
The. Constructivist Era of the Soviet Union; abstract art meets cubism meets the proletariat.
Genuinely curious: why use an AI image instead of the many real Constructivist buildings?
I especially this one, nice balance of raw concrete and ornamentation:
Unaware. Just grabbed the first example from a search.
I want anything that isn't low effort, bland, inoffensive. I hate modern trend towards boring. I love everything that isn't landlord white.
Absolutely gonna agree with OP. Art deco is absolutely amazing and 100% my pic.
Any style older than 60 years that is not brutalism.
Things used to have decor before, we've moved to a functionality only infrastructure, it's always done in the cheapest way possible and it's sort of depressing
I'm reminded of this video about how changes to the construction industry starting in the '50s resulted in the loss of ornamentation in architecture
Cool, yet unfortunate.
Haussmanian , as in multi-story mixed use buildings : 6 or 7 floors. Bottom floor is for businesses. Top floor is subdivided in small but cheap one bedrooms. Built in an H, O or U footprint with a central courtyard for the whole building to share. Facade can have art nouveau architectural elements but whatever is cheap is good.
Affordable Housing
Big beautiful brutalistic concrete block with some fucking space!
Cool, if it's also Art Nouveau.
Waterfall. Agile is a mess.
Nice.
Mud huttingdon:
Affordable housing after the water wars
I fully expect that to make a comeback in the aftermath of the climate wars.
I was thinking the exact same thing. Mud walls are great insulators, and keep really cool during the intense summer heat
Yeah, art deco is definitely high on that list. Also brutalism. I especially love brutalist interiors.
Living in Germany I can't stand any more brutalism. It has become the "standard" because it's just the cheapest to leave the raw concrete exposed.
Fair enough, to each their own. Although brutalism is more than just exposed concrete, that is definitely the signature thing.
More often than not Brutalism is nowadays used as an excuse for minimizing cost here. While some of the pictures shown here can look appealing, the style just doesn't sit well with me considering how it is (mis)used here.
Ah yes, the evil villain hideout style. Not a fan of it myself but it does have something cool about it.
Fair enough. I also love it for office buildings and such, like in this example from The Oldest House in Control, or Luthen's shop or Coruscant in Andor.
Honestly it does look good in a way yeah. Especially for the mega structures. Nice
Art Deco and Art Nouveau both are great in my eyes. (Neo-)Gothic cathedrals and churches are also wonderful.
But one more regional thing: I really like the Brick Gothic style. It is robust against wear and tear and still looks great.
Actual decoration instead of just cheap sheetrock and Metal fixtures.
Also houses for everyone
Brutalism and Art Deco, not together obviously, but +1000 points to Affordable Housing @supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz lol
Why not together? I can definitely see Brutalism exterior, Art Deco interior. I can slightly imagine some mutant fusion exterior but I'm no artist.
Why not together? Brutalism exterior and Art Deco interior? I can slightly imagine some combined exteriors but I'm no artist.
I love this style of modern architecture from the late 1960s to early 1980s:
Art Nouveau. It looks so whimsical. I'd also like a Gothic/Gothic Revival.
Idk about regular houses but I wish factories were still styled like they were in the Victorian era. There's a reason so many got converted into offices and apartments
Yeah, Victorian industrial is where it's at. Especially if it looks a bit run down and has faded lettering still barely visible on the bricks.
Second Art Nouveau. Art Deco is nice, but I think over played as a throwback.
Also a fan of a neoclassical Italianate style. Square columns, low flat roofs, towers and tall thin windows. It can vary, but when done in a clean and simple style, it's very nice IMO.
The full swathe from Art Nouveau/Jugendstil through Art Deco/Moderne and Bauhaus functionalism through to 1950s modernism. If I had to be more specific, I’d focus on British interwar modernism.
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